#rtl

[raytorotits]

My dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “remember the laughter” 😳 you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

Me: yeah whatever. I don’t feel shit.

5 minutes later: dude I think the world might be full of love and light

My buddy Ray pacing: I love my beautiful son

#tag.txt #rtl

[kingderp]

So uhh.. I got into Fortnite cause of a silly sunny character..

#sunspot #fortnite #sunspot fanart #sunspot fortnite #rtl #raven team leader #fennix #art #artists on tumblr #fanart #fortnite fanart #sketch #doodle

[re-whump]

the other day @whumpsday had an ask about tiny kane au and mentioned kane hiding under a leaf after a failed attempt to return home

and I keep thinking about a tiny vampire hiding under a leaf all day, like? stranding yourself under this flimsy shield to avoid the most agonizing pain you know but also you’re still in hostile territory. imagine hearing someone stomping around, do you move and risk drawing attention to yourself? can you move without knocking that cover loose? And really, you don’t just have to worry about someone noticing you—getting crushed underfoot is going to have an ugly healing process, especially if the slightest breeze blows that leaf away while you’re an immobile mess of pulp… so uh, a small fanart of the poor guy

#i GIVE UP making light/color look better #there was more going on comp wise and I cut it off lol #my art #g/t #I NEED to do something w a tiny vampire tho #almost as badly as I need to stop starting new projects #rtl

[xyroni]

Okay last one! 🤣

Really craving for some Ube Macapuno roll but for some reason the bakeshop that sells it doesn't make it anymore

#oc #nelly argiope #spider girl #monster girl #fortnite #raven team leader #rtl #cake

[jarhingeart]

Raven Team Leader that I painted like a Team Fortress 2 portrait for Reasons!

#team fortress 2 #fortnite #tf2 #tf2 fanart #portrait #fortnite fanart #epic games #raven team leader #rtl #crossover fanart #fortnite battle royale #fortnite skins

[metalbrojack]

An actual photo of me n Jame having a lil smooch

#metalbrojack #metallica #james hetfield #jack’s thoughts #rtl #ride the lightning

[tearmeopen-pourmeout]

From the Metallica Black Box

#metallica #james hetfield #kirk hammett #lars ulrich #cliff burton #ride the lightning #rtl #lars.. are ya trying to turn us to dust with your stare or what #80s metal #80s

[liltingoddesss]

37 years

#metallica #cliff burton #cliff #burton #missing him #37 #years #37 years without you #bye #bass #bass guitar #bassist #kill em all #ride the lightning #master of puppets #kea #rtl #mop #September 27 #1986

[killerqueenhetfield]

Cliff and James (mainly)

Can we talk about Cliff’s jawline/side profile in the bottom left picture?!?! I’m so jealous. It’s perfect.

#i love them so much #metallica #james hetfield #cliff burton #mop #kea #rtl #80s thrash #metal

[trickstump]

stream remember the laughter

#jack's shit #ray toro #remember the laughter #rtl #the birthday is tomorrow stream today.

[raytorotits]

the lucky ones - ray toro // mcr - 2003 and 2022

#camee up w this 2 days before rtl day #thank you to hen for ferdback and especially bishop for sourcing tbe first image #i simply. album of all time. #rtl bday #tag.txt #rtl #parallels #comparisons

[coniecal]

Raven Team Leader!

#raven team leader #rtl #fortnite fanart #fortnite art #fortnite #fanart

[re-whump]

thinking about a tiny vampire strung up on a silver chain like a pendant

#like thread the chain through the poor little guy's body. not tied up #tiny whump #rtl

[reborrowing]

gremlin behavior

#g/t #g/t art #g/t ocs #sfw g/t #giant/tiny #giant tiny #my art #oc: kayla #oc: coop #cyberfae au #rtl

[drakvuf]

Két perce

megy a Házasodna a gazda, de már bevillant egy sámándob

#rtl #házasodna a gazda

[raytorosaurus]

hi Raytorosaurus, in the beginning of your post you said Ray has done interviews, podcasts, and blogged in recent years, can you please link me to those things? I would be extremely and eternally grateful <3

yes ofc!! this one by tom bryant (author of not the life it seems) is my favourite! and not just because ray talks about how much he loves being a stay at home dad doing chores while his wife gets her master's degree. it's just sweet, and goes a little more in depth into remember the laughter's concept than some of these other interviews.

this one isn't remember the laughter related, but tom bryant also did this interview with him the year before, after he released for the lost and brave dedicated to leelah alcorn (cw non-graphic discussion of suicide). it's really fucking sweet. ray talks a lot about his family and about fatherhood and about how he wants to raise his kids to be as kind and socially conscious as possible in pretty much all of the interviews i've linked here, but i really fucking love this thing he says in this one in particular:

"If ever my son was having a rough time I would just hope that he would trust me and allow me to be there for him. It’s common for parents and older people to look at youth in a negative way and to not respect the young as people. My wife always says that a lot of parents treat their kids like property – the whole, ‘this is my house, these are my rules and you must abide by my law’. You have to put yourself on the same level as your kid, you have to relate to them as a person. I hope that there’s more understanding about the differences between people in the future that my son grows up in.”

at the risk of sounding like a broken record, this one is also really fucking sweet. again he talks about the values he wants to impart on his kids, and how his son is featured in the lucky ones playing his child's percussion set :'''')

this one is a bit longer and just rly cute lol like just fun vibes

there's a couple of shorter ones here and here that are also worth a read. there's also this review that i like - it's not 100% positive but the writer does make a point of saying he's shocked the album didn't get much attention despite ray having been in mcr. yeah me too dude :(

this is a podcast he appeared on - he did at least one or two others but i think sadly they've been lost to time :(((((( but god this one is so sweet he's just sooooo. so <3. ray also says the band broke up a few weeks after his son was born in september 2012 which is interesting lol.

sadly a bunch of his blog stuff has been lost to time because the wayback machine has done a spotty job of archiving it but you can try to explore around the archived pages a bit. if you click around to different dates or subpages you can see some of his photography (tho sadly a lot of it hasn't been saved :((( ) and a few blog posts. you might even come across his shitty vent poetry lol <3333

and then i love this interview sooooo much too like this writer really gets it. ray talks about how he got obsessed with this free climber after watching a mountaineering documentary which inspired the great beyond, so the great beyond actually features a fucking chalk bag as a percussion instrument because he's insane and i love him. it also has the line "enthusiasm leaking from him like a punctured capri-sun" LOL. and then it wraps up with this statement that i really love:

Mixed, engineered and almost entirely performed by Toro, ‘Remember The Laughter’ is very much this man’s pride and joy. Every nuance of the record is explained with intricate detail and the subject matter held within comes straight from his heart. Whether you like it or not remains to be seen, as its influences are often drawn from well outside the My Chemical Romance sphere. Whether you listen to it or not, though, really comes down to this: do you want to hear some honest music?

because honestly that's the one common thread through all of mcr's discography and every single one of their solo projects. they are all 100% earnest. they all access that honesty in different ways and ray's definitely not a super accomplished lyricist so some of the lines on rtl verge on corny or schmaltzy sometimes but they never, ever sound fake or inauthentic. he wrote the album imagining he was speaking the lyrics to his son to instill a sense of hope in him about the world so he'd grow up with the belief that he was capable of making it a better place and he fucking means every word of it bro. he's ray toro :( i like him :((((

#reread a bunch of these while i was putting this together and now i'm down so fucking bad for him this happens every time #like why are you the most lovable man in the universe huh #anyway sorry this took me a while to get to life is crazy huh #answered #ray toro #rtl #interview #ref